Konkurrencen havde ikke en egentlig vinder, men skal istedet ses som 5 studier til en endelig løsning. De 5 inviterede arkitektfirmaer var: BIG / Foster+Partners og Berg / Wingårdhs og Tema / Atelier Jean Nouvel og Habiter Autrement / Nyréns.

Se og læs mere om forslagene her: www.stockholm.se

(Husk at trykke på ´fullScreen´ ikonet!!)

100% COOLNESS

Etienne De Crecy Live 2007 ,Transmusicales de Rennes

Det her er fuuucking cool!!!. Jeg faldt tilfældigt over den her video fra en Etienne De Crecy koncert , som Exyzt har stået for. De skriver på deres website at dette projekt tog 4 timer at opsætte - koncerten tog 1 time og demontering tog 1 time!!

www.exyzt.net

I.Love.Sketch - 3D freehand app

ILoveSketch, a 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models. The system coherently integrates existing techniques of sketch-based interaction with a number of novel and enhanced features. Novel contributions of the system include automatic view rotation to improve curve sketchability, an axis widget for sketch surface selection, and implicitly inferred changes between sketching techniques. We also improve on a number of existing ideas such as a virtual sketchbook, simplified 2D and 3D view navigation, multi-stroke NURBS curve creation, and a cohesive gesture vocabulary.

www.ilovesketch.com
www.dgp.toronto.edu/~shbae

www.framebox.de

Soap Skin & Bubbles - SketchUp Plugin udarbejdet af en tysk ingeniør. Kan downloades gratis her på dette link.

“Nice Clean White” - Tekst: James P Honey, Beats: Roma

DaBrainKilla - Stop Motion med hjemmekamera
Disse videoer er lavet af Christophe Thockler aka DaBrainkilla. Den optaget med et helt simpelt Nikon Coolpix E4600 (så old school, at du ikke kan købe det længere). Der er altså ingen videooptagelser, men kun 4.500 still billeder!

“Night Black Crow” - 5.262 stop motion fotografier. 4 måneders arbejde, 2-3 timer hver dag. Musik video for Degiheugi and Ghostown

“Chronophotographie (fragments)”. Musik: Fabric and Reindeer

http://www.myspace.com/daBrainKilla

Australske Keith Loutit har lavet 3 små film med Tilt Shift effekt - bedst kendt fra still fotografier. Men det ser nu cool ud. Se dem i endnu bedre opløsning på dette link.

Adobe KULER - dyrk dine farver online

´Farveblanderen´ Kuler fra Adobe, er ikke en nyhed, men det betyder ikke at alle kender den. Du kan finde dele af online applikationen i CS3 Illustrator og Photoshop, men den gamle (2007) online version er bedre.

http://kuler.adobe.com

Estonian Academy of Arts (EFFEKT+SEA)

Vi har alle set billeder af projektet, men har ventet på at se filmen - godt at Tue fik tid til at lægge den på Youtube selvom han svømmer i arbejde…og bleer, haha.

www.Effekt.dk

Adobe CS4 er landet ///

På PhotoshopCafe.com kan du læse den top bedste gennemgang af hvad det nye er i de enkelte programmer i CS4 pakken. Og de har også lavet en 70 siders Superguide, som kan downloades ved at subscribe på deres nyhedsbrev…meeen jeg har hentet den til os alle, så vi slipper for det CRAB!! Tryk her for download (PDF)

Du kan gratis tilmelde dig Adobe CS4 Launch Seminar i CinemaxX (Fisketorvet) tirsdag d. 28 oktober kl. 9:00 - 13:00 - tilmelding her.

Læs her en længere anmeldelse af hele Adobe CS4 Design pakken.

Architectural Design & Fabrication with Digital Technology
Lisa Iwamoto [Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley]

www.iwamotoscott.com

Abstract: Since the advent of Computer Aided Design (CAD), the process of making buildings has fundamentally changed. Computer drafting has become the industry standard, facilitating rapid and accurate communication among architects, engineers, and contractors. There is now a corresponding move toward Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) using computer numerically controlled machines. Similar to the manufacture of products, digital files used by architects are sent to fabricators to make building components using CNC instrumentation, dramatically streamlining the production process. Because architecture operates at a much larger scale than product design, however, the demands placed on CNC instrumentation are unique. This talk will describe the creative potential of digital fabrication for architectural design using examples from my professional practice, IwamotoScott, as well as some of my students’ work in the Department of Architecture.

Biography: Lisa Iwamoto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, and Principal of IwamotoScott. IwamotoScott is a practice committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, engaging in projects at multiple scales and in a variety of contexts consisting of full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions and commissioned design projects. The firm has received numerous awards and has been published nationally and internationally. Most recently, they received the grand prize for “HydroNet” a design for the History Channel and IBM sponsored competition “City of the Future: San Francisco 2108″.

Lysberegninger i 3ds Max 2009 Design

På arbejdet har vi lige fået den nyeste 3ds Max 2009 opgradering ind af døren. Og det første der møder en er valget mellem den normale “3ds Max 2009” og “3ds Max 2009 Design” ? Det er vist lidt en videreførelse af Max vs. Viz…desværre er Design ikke kun en skrumpet version af Max. Den har også en interresant funktion, kaldet Exposure (se film nedenfor)

Hent en gratis 30-dages prøve version af 3ds Max 2009 Design, her.

Demo-film 1

Demo-film 2

Se flere 3ds Max 2009 demonstrations video her.

“Exposing Daylight. How realistically does light behave in Autodesk 3ds Max 2009? In the upcoming design-centric version of Max, branded as 3ds Max Design, Autodesk aims to make lighting simulation accurate enough to perform daylighting studies in architectural projects destined for LEED 8.1 accreditation. To that end, the application’s Exposure technology provides output not only as rendered images but as numerical data (downloadable as Excel data), representing the distribution of light intensity across space.

“Exposure is unique to 3ds Max Design,” said Rick Champagne, product marketing manager for Autodesk’s M&E Division. Listing the new version’s key features and benefits, Autodesk states, “In addition to light metering functionality with graphical output, Exposure also features the popular 3ds Max sun and sky models.”

With the introduction of Exposure, 3ds Max Design tiptoes ever so slightly toward energy efficiency modeling, a field currently dominated by specialized packages such as ECOTECT (from the UK-based Square One Research) and IES-VE (Integrated Environment Solutions <Virtual Environment>).

Transparent Underground

Helt iorden reklame for Madrid´s Metro. Kan også ses her på Youtube.

SHoP Architects - 290 Mulberry, NY

Boligprojektet 290 Mulberry, tegnet af SHoP Architects er ved at komme godt op af jorden. Læs en kort beskrivelse af hvordan arkitekten, David Fano opbyggede facaden, og hvilke programmer han har brugt.

Se billeder af byggeprocessen nedenfor (Flickr)

www.290mulberry.com

Websitet DesignReform er en invitation til at komme over skyerne, og få en super indføring i hvordan man med kan arbejde super parametrisk med de programmer vi allerede sidder med - 3ds Max, Revit og Rhino. Her omsættes det statiske diagram til et intentionsløst, dynamisk element, som kun venter på at blive udfordret af arkitektens idéer.

Og det hele kommer vældene ud af arkitekten David Fano, som arbejder hos SHoP Architects i NY, plus at han underviser på Columbia University i parametric design. Hans website: DesignReform.net startede oprindeligt som vejledning til hans studerende, men er nu et af de, alt for få, websites som hælder ud af sin erfaring fra sin faktiske erhvervserfaring med BIM. (OBS: huske at trykke på ´fullescreen´ ikonet for at se filmene i god kvalitet i fuld størrelse).

Han har også oprettet et diskussions forum, som er værd at besøge.

Det kan ikke gøres meget bedre, og du kan let få dine aftener til at gå med at se, notere og efterprøve alle hans tricks…alle optaget i fullscreen movieclips.

Rhino Tutorial - Tower Massing with Explicit (Grasshopper) and Implicit History

3Ds Max - Spline Tower (reference geometry to build parametric relationships)

3ds Max Tutorial - Modeling a Hexagon Screen

3ds Max Tutorial - Circle Pattern with Wire Parameters

Se flere links til tutorials nedenfor…

3ds Max - Hexagons with Classic Mesh Smooth

3ds Max Tutorial - Parametric Walkway

3ds Max Tutorial - Modeling with Images

3ds Max Tutorial - Wire Parameters

3ds Max Tutorials - Plannar ploys

3ds max Tutorial - Unwraping geometry

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Jeg kan kun anbefale denne dokumentar af brilliant instruktøren Sydney Pollack. Man kan synes at Gehry´s style er lidt som et neverending opkast af ustyrlige former, men han er bundærlig og har på mange punkter oplevet mere i faget end de fleste.

Læs en rigtig fin artikel om filmen, her: www.berlingske.dk

Director Sydney Pollack asks the architect, “Is starting hard?” “You know it is,” replies Gehry. “I don’t know what you do when you start, but I clean my desk, I make a lot of stupid appointments that I make sound important. Avoidance. Delay. Denial. I’m always scared that I’m not going to know what to do. It’s a terrifying moment. And then when I start I’m always amazed – oh that wasn’t so bad.”

www.imusic.dk (120 kr.)
www.laserdisken.dk (199 kr.)

Jeg kender en der næsten har hørt at filmen findes på thepiratebay.org - så har du allerede installeret programmet VUZE, så kommer det let til dig…nok.

Anmeldelse: www.rottentomatoes.com (81%)
Ameldelse: ICONEYE

Battles | Atlas

In addition to the march-like rhythm, a synergy of bass and drum that propel the music forward, the aural and visual action take place a room with two-way mirrors. Yet the images do not extend into infinity, they are circumscribed by a cube. “

Kilde: www.aggregat456.com

One of the Architectural highlights of the year is without doubt SmartGeometry. It’s the one event where you can see totally cutting edge technologies applied to Architecture and structural design”.

16 timer online film fra SmartGeomerty Konferencen 2008

The Godfather of Parametic Software development´ , Dr.Robert Aish , skiftede sidste år holddragt, da han skiftede job fra Beantly (MicroStation/Generative Components) til ærkerivalen Autodesk. Siden da har alle været fulde af forventning til hvad Autodesks programbeholdning (Maya, Revit, Autocad, 3dsMax, Ecotect mf) vil kunne tilbyde udviklingen af parametrisk arkitektur, og om Beantly vil kunne stå på egne ben.

Ihvertfald er der siden sidste år sket en ændring i forhold til åbenhed og branding, da hele konferencen ligger online og kan streames ganske gratis…alle 16 timer!

Der er masser af top-notch indlæg fra bla. Zaha Hadid, SHoP, Arup, Grimshaw, Foster + Partners, Ecotect, TU Delft, KPF mf.

OBS! Du skal afgive “et-eller-andet” information for at få adgang…men det kan jo være hvadsomhelst hvis du er lidt øm over at afgive dit info - gør ingen forskel i dette tilfælde.

CONFERENCE Program: (6,5 timer)

SESSION 1 – Form as choice (45 min)

SESSION 2 – Form informed by manufacture (85 min)

SESSION 3 – Form as revolution (170 min)

SESSION 4 – Form as responsibility (95 min)

Alumni Summit Agenda (9,5 timer)

SESSION 1 - GenerativeComponents and Tools (90 min)

SESSION 2 - GenerativeComponents in Action (160 min)

SESSION 3 - Theory Session (150 min)

SESSION 4 - Practice Session (180 min)

www.smartgeometry2008.com (Conference)

Highlights fra Workshoppen (billeder)

Artikel om SmartGeomerty 2008 (AEC Magazine)

SketchUp er lykkeligvis et af de programmer som de ´travle´ arkitekter faktisk har tid til at lære - så til dem som kan og vil er der her over 100 links til diverse: Forums, Usergroups, Tutorials, Components, Materials, Plugins osv.

::Forums and UserGroups::

Google SketchUp Pro Official Site

• SketchUp Pro Groups
• LayOut Groups
• Style Builder
• SketchUp How-To
• Deutschsprachiges Anwendergroup
• Ruby API
• GIS and SketchUp
• SketchUp in Education
• SketchUp Materials/Components/Styles
• Pro Gallery
• Corner Bar
• SketchUp Jobs

Kilde: www.pushpullbar.com

Google SketchUp Help

• SketchUp
• 3D Warehouse
• How-to articles
• Layout (Pro beta)
• Is something broken?
• Feature suggestions
• Ruby ideas
• Gallery

SketchUcation Home of the SketchUp Community

• Newbies
• Pro Users
• Ruby scripting & Extension development
• Plug-ins & Add-ons
• Tutorials & How-to
• Materials, Components and Styles
• Gallery
• Corner bar
• Back issues of CatchUp
• Jobs
• Community voices
• Foreign languages

pushpullbar.com

• Design Studio
• Architecture+Design Bar
• Orbit Lounge
• Media Room
• Techincal Department

SketchUp Forum (NL)

List of Sketchup UserGroups (go-2-school.com)

::Tutorials::

Google Video Tutorials

Google Self Paced Tutorials

Tutorials by SketchUpVideo in Youtube NEW! Many more useful tips from Google.

The Sketchup Show Tutorials in Web2.0

SUWiki Another important resource of information run by Chris Fullmer aka clf23, a ppb member.

Google SketchUp Paradise in Japanese only

SU Tutorials-Tips-Links20.zip A famous (and enormous) file containing all the information you need.

::Components, Materials and Rubies::

SubdivideAndSmooth NEW! Organic modelling toolset. The power of subdivision surfaces in SU6. (PC)

Sketchyphysics You just have to see what it does!

Designer Components Depot Hidden deep inside of pushpullbar

Form Fonts 3D Sells quality SU components

Sweets3D Collection Sweets is building the largest collection of professional grade SketchUp 3D building product models.

3D Warehouse 3D content created by Google SketchUp users.

Digital Nursery Tree images and components, palm trees, 3D landscape images.

Ruby Library Depot THE place for ruby scripts

Smustard.com Brilliant scripts

Archsymb_Ruby Library Another place for ruby scripts

Jan Sandström NEW! Yet another place for Rubies.

OhYeahCAD Free Software Download NEW! Worth a visit.

::Rendering and Animation::

SU Animate NEW! SU Animate works inside SU and creates scenes that you can play as an animation in SU or export to an AVI or MOV. (Mac + PC)

LightUP NEW! LightUp is a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your sketchup models (Mac + PC)

Deep Exploration Standard NEW! Convert, render, animate and publish .skp files to 40 different 3D formats including .3ds, .obj, .u3d, Flash, HTML, etc. (PC)

IDX Renditioner Photorealistic rendering that’s easy enough for novices, powerful enough for professionals. (Mac + PC)

Entourage Arts Non Photorealistic Entourage Elements for architects. (Mac + PC)

Artlantis Easy radiosity - even in preview (Mac + PC)

Cheetah 3D Powerful 3D modelling, rendering and animation solution (Mac)

Indigo Renderer A physically-based, unbiased render engine (PC)

Kerkythea “Simply Powerful (and free!)” (PC)

Maxwell Render A physically correct, unbiased rendering engine (Mac + PC + Linux)

modo 3D modeling, painting and rendering in a single integrated package (Mac + PC)

Piranesi Render like you sketch (Mac + PC)

SU Podium Photo-realistic rendering for SketchUp by a single click (PC)

V-Ray The benchmark (PC)

::Miscellaneous::

eDrawings for Google SketchUp NEW! eDrawings generates a self-executable file out of your SKP. The .exe file contains the viewer as well as the design data. You can also convert it to HTML format and the models can be viewed in the browser. (PC)

IFC2SKP Beta NEW! The plugin lets SU to load IFC data from popular BIM apps such as ArchiCAD, Revit and Microstation. (PC)

Google Earth What? You need an explanation for Google Earth?

SketchUp Plugins NEW! A blog by Jim Foltz, a SketchUp and Ruby enthusiast.

Viz.arch A blog by ppb member Tim Danaher. SketchUp in its extreme.

Man kan jo kun holde af Cartoon Chair fra dansk, italiansk arkitektparret Stine Gam og Enrico Fratesi. Det er i samarbejde med den svenske møbelproducent Swedese, at stolen er kommet til live. På deres website kan du downloade en 2D og 3D model.

Fatter ikke at det kun kan være Casanova Furniture som umiddelbart kan findes på www som sælger - der må da være andre der vil tjene penge !?

www.gamplusfratesi.com

TRYK på billede for 3D PDF eksempel

Den Japanske kunstner Nobuo Takahashi har vist haft det lige lovlig sjovt…

På en af Sketchup 3D Basecamps timelange, men udemærkede video sessions kan du se et exempel på hvordan det gratis Sketchup Plugin, EnergyPlus virker. (Du skal spole ca. 31-41:20 minutter ind i den ovenstående video). Det er basic tec, men alligevel står han og laver meget enkle øvelser direkte i SketchUps eget interface - ligner præcis de forhåbninger man har til Ecotects kommende udvikling: Fast, Simple og niiiiice!!

Download link til EnergyPlus SketchUp Plugin

OBS!! Før du kan lave en egentlig simulering skal du også downloade selve EnergyPlus Enginen (gratis download), og den sted specifike EnergyPlus Weather Data (Europa), (Danmark)

Links til EnergyPlus´ Documentation

“SquintOpera” - når arkitektur skal sælges!

Squint/Opera er et film- og medieproduktions studie, som arbejder mest i film- og arkitekturverdenen. De er op på da´beat med hvordan stilen skal skæres, og hvordan de gennem med egne metoder fanger og formidler: programsætninger, intentioner og problemstillinger så selv et skolebarn kan forstå det - altså af den slags der ser meget MTV!! … det er lidt den samme stencil style, som jeg sidste år havde en del video exempler på. se indlægget: Typography on the move!

Jeg har vedhæftet en del af deres film nedenfor, men der er flere at finde på Youtube

Ecotect (…) will support Autodesk’s vision to deliver software that enables architects and engineers to design more sustainable projects. With improved building performance analysis capabilities, Autodesk will be uniquely positioned to offer a comprehensive suite of software solutions for sustainable design and analysis, enabling a BIM process that can facilitate cost-effective design and delivery of high-performing, resource-efficient buildings and infrastructure.

AUTODESK har købt ECOTECT

Med Autodesks überherredømme indenfor stort set alle brugerflader, kommer det ikke heeelt bag på én, at de nu købte simulerings programmet ECOTECT for små 2 uger siden. For en måned siden købte de ovenikøbet Green Building Studio, som er et web baseret energi analyse værktøj.

Læs Autodesks´ Press realease